Louise Loves Bake Sales

by Kelly Light, Kelly Light (Illustrator)

Overview

Louise loves all kinds of art. But when she has to make cupcakes for a bake sale—and everything goes wrong—can she and her brother make messy cupcakes into art?

This charming I Can Read story also introduces the concept of how mixing primary colors makes new ones, and that creativity comes in all different forms.

Louise Loves Bake Sales is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. This is the first Level One I Can Read starring Louise, from the acclaimed picture book Louise Loves Art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062363657
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/02/2018
Series:	I Can Read Book 1 Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kelly Light is an author and illustrator who now lives in New York but grew up down the shore in New Jersey surrounded by giant pink dinosaurs, cotton candy colors, and Skee-Ball sounds. She was schooled on Saturday-morning cartoons and Sunday funny pages. She picked up a pencil, started drawing, and never stopped. She has illustrated two chapter book series: Elvis and the Underdogs by Jenny Lee and the Quirks by Erin Soderberg. She is the author-illustrator of Louise Loves Art and Louise and Andie.

Find her online at kellylight.com.

 

Kelly Light is an author and illustrator who now lives in New York but grew up down the shore in New Jersey surrounded by giant pink dinosaurs, cotton candy colors, and Skee-Ball sounds. She was schooled on Saturday-morning cartoons and Sunday funny pages. She picked up a pencil, started drawing, and never stopped. She has illustrated two chapter book series: Elvis and the Underdogs by Jenny Lee and the Quirks by Erin Soderberg. She is the author-illustrator of Louise Loves Art and Louise and Andie.

Find her online at kellylight.com.

 

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2017
PreS-Gr 2—Louise loves all kinds of art, from classic portraits to abstract paintings. She can see art in everything around her. But can she incorporate art into her baking? The first grade bake sale is coming up and Louise wants to create artistic cupcakes. Not wanting to accomplish this task alone, she employs her brother Art, as her assistant. Louise starts with the primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. Then she realizes they can be mixed together to create purple, green, and orange. Now she has all of the colors she needs to make a rainbow. Unfortunately, her assistant gets a bit carried away and the final color becomes a drab gray. Louise is persistent artist and baker. She uses her imagination—and some inspiration from her brother's robot costume—to use the dull color frosting and create whimsical cupcakes. This is a good book for beginning readers. The sentences are short and the words are easy to decipher. There is plenty of repetition to help young ones retain newly acquired words. It also incorporates a bit of science and art. The three primary color words are reviewed as well as the secondary ones. The illustrations are entertaining and provide strong support for the text. Even though Louise's little brother does not say a word, he's a major character in the story. The book teaches a lesson about working together and not giving up. VERDICT A must-have for easy reader, maker, and picture book collections.—Barbara Spiri, Southborough Library, MA

School Library Journal

A sweet sibling outing, in both senses of the word.” — Kirkus Reviews

“A must-have for easy reader, maker, and picture book collections” — School Library Journal

Praise for LOUISE LOVES ANDIE: “Visually sophisticated in a totally accessible way” — Kirkus Reviews

Praise for LOUISE LOVES ART: “Light…is a confident visual storyteller with a gentle sense of comic timing” — Publishers Weekly

Praise for LOUISE LOVES ART: “Budding artists, those not only crazy for art but who have their eyes and heart open, will find a muse and a collaborator.” — School Library Journal

Praise for LOUISE LOVES ART: “A fresh and bright sibling tale...Cheerfully art-ful.” — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-10-01
Art-loving Louise and her little brother, Art, cook up creative treats for the first-grade bake sale in this early-reader offering.Throughout the book, which features a first-person text with controlled vocabulary, an unmentioned black cat accompanies bespectacled Louise and her robot-costumed brother, adding visual interest to the pictures. The opening spreads depict Louise with Art as she expresses her love for art of all kinds. "I see art in everything!" she exclaims while reading a baking cookbook. The next page depicts a notice on the refrigerator for contributions to a bake sale to fund a field trip. The children, who are both depicted as white with light skin, set out to bake and decorate "a rainbow of cupcakes." They start with primary colors for the frosting and then mix them together for more options, but the process goes awry when Art combines too many colors and they end up with big bowls of gray frosting. "At least they taste good, even if they don't look like art," Louise generously states. Her eureka moment arrives when she repeats the phrase "Look like Art," and a first-person visual perspective shows her comparing the gray-frosted cupcakes with the gray-helmeted Art. Inspired, Louise adds confectionary embellishments to the cupcakes, which make them look like little robots, too, and the "ROBO CAKES" are a hit at the bake sale.A sweet sibling outing, in both senses of the word. (Early reader. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews